The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell first achieved fame in the 1960s when the boom in folk music saw her songwriting skills and, later, her talents as a performer become sought after. Lately she has returned to the simple style of ... A wave of vibrant rock music surged from women artists in 2007. After a long hiatus away from the recording studio, Joni Mitchell returned to grace our listening spaces with "Shine." Annie Lennox laid "Songs of Mass Destruction" on us, while KT ... Jessie DeCorsey loves to watch her customers' reactions when they stroll into the Starbucks on Main Street in Stillwater and come face to face with a life-size painting of songwriting icon Joni Mitchell on the wall. Often, they stand really close to ... It turned out to be his strongest seller in a decade, and fellow veterans Joni Mitchell and James Taylor followed McCartney onto Hear Music in short order. Madonna also said sayanora to her longtime label, Warner Brothers, and signed a long-term pact ... ... Poling, John Munson and Steve Roehm reimagine some Christmas chestnuts (a swinging, vibes-driven "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is especially cool), but they also interpret unexpected yule stuff, including Trip Shakespeare's "Snow Days," Joni Mitchell ... Joni Mitchell made a fine comeback, and the strangest thing is that a tribute record to her was nominated for a Grammy, but she was ignored. It's why you shouldn't take the Grammys seriously. A note about an obvious omission, Leslie Feist. She made a ... The subject matter (the songs of Joni Mitchell) and the presence of Tina Turner and Leonard Cohen led me to expect one of Mr. Hancock's more pop-oriented projects. To my surprise, it turned out to be one of the best hardcore jazz albums he's done in ... Marquee artists like Joni Mitchell and Paul McCartney gravitated toward distribution networks with built-in audiences ( Starbuck s ' Hear Music ), whereas the Eagles released its disappointing double album, Long Road out of Eden , exclusively (and fittingly ... ... album belonged to the final recording by saxophonist Michael Brecker, who died in January, having left his mark on more than 900 records. Brecker's style owed a lot to John Coltrane, but he found musical partners far and wide, from Joni Mitchell to ... Alberta Ballet's premiere of The Fiddle and The Drum fared much better. The 45-minute work, which marked a unique collaboration between famed singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and artistic director Jean Grand-Maitre was greeted with considerable warmth ...
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